Issues for 1838-1841 published: Leipzig : Im Verlage der Wiedmannschen Buchhandlung

Edited by: Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber

citation/reference: Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 66

Supplement issued Leipzig, 1840 under title: Atlas des Erdmagnetismus. With iv, 36 p., 18 double leaves of plates, and 4 double leaves of tables; 28 cm

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

SCDIRB has one complete copy, and two incomplete copies

SCDIRB c. 1, Bd. 1-6, has bookplate: Library, U.S. Patent Office, marked "cancelled"; with U.S.P.O. accession nos. 43568, 43570-43574

SCDIRB c. 1, Bd. 1-6 has old brown embossed half-leather binding with purple embossed-cloth-covered boards; raised bands; gilt-lettered spine; and marbled endpapers and edges

SCDIRB c. 1, Suppl., has stamp on t.p.: Received Library, U.S. Patent Office, Nov. 20, 1882 [marked "cancelled"]; with U.S.P.O. accession no.: 43,566

SCDIRB c. 1, Suppl., has later gilt-lettered black buckram library binding with Heckman Bindery label on back paste-down endpaper

SCDIRB c. 2 , with Bd. 1 only, has stamp on t.p.: Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department

SCDIRB c. 2 has stamp on t.p.: Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department

SCDIRB c. 2 has black buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and front cover; marbled edges; and binder's label for the Heckman Bindery

SCDIRB c. 3, with Bd. 1 and 2 only, has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner; Bd. 1 is stamped "Herald of Science no. 66."

SCDIRB c. 3, Bd. 1 has ms. annotation on front cover: Royal Society; a green, engraved Deutsche Bundesposte 10 Pfennig stamp of Gauss (signed by H. Eidenbenz and L. Schnell) is mounted on the front paste-down endpaper

SCDIRB c. 3, Bd. 1 and 2, are each bound in the original brown paper boards with printed blue paper spine labels; both are housed together in a later brown buckram box, with gilt-lettered spine label, for preservation

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